Civilians ride the elevator

[manic root]

This would the game feel a little more alive rather than the civilians running down the stairs. Instead, they might push the button wait for the elevator to get to their floor and ride it.

[stark reef]

Riddle me this. What happens when 60 people all want to use the elevator at the same time?

[past bloom]

Limit to 1 person interested in the elevator at a time. It's just that elevators are very conspicuous, at least add minimal life to them

[soft elm]

id say it works the same way if 60 people requested for the elevator in real life

few ways to approach it would be: Make it bigger so more people can get in

secondly, everyone doesnt need to use the elevator. It could just be a random num generator

Or, they could calculate intuitively whether taking the elevator is faster or not based on some heuristic cuz i dont think a citizen can know exactly the difference in time by using elevator and stairs.

Edit: By this i mean, like we do in real life, we see where the elevator is, we see how many floors we need to go down and on that basis calculate in our head whether to take the elevator or not

[manic root]

Maybe after they wait for a while they just take the stairs or they wait by the door

[stark reef]

I considered a solution. The elevator is no longer in control, it goes in a sequence of up to top, then down to bottom. NPCs can wait at the elevator and do a check on if the elevator is heading up or down to know when they should get on by doing math by number of floors from their own floor is the destination. They get on when it is most space convenient because they wait until it's on their direction and they don't all just dogpile it. Everyone naturally gets off when the elevator is stopped and they're on the right floor, they get out and go to work. But here's the next question? Is it faster to walk up 1 flight of stairs or take the elevator from an open door position to an open door position on 1 floor different from its current? I know for a fact that you can get to the 5th floor EASILY before the elevator, and that includes needing to run out of the elevator after activating it. So what pace is an NPC walk? It's a different speed than the player, slower. unless they run, but nobody is running to work, and nobody is running home. That's life. So anyways, I think them walking is probably more time efficient than any reasonable solution we provide barring having multiple elevators, like in real life.

[trail birch]

the player waiting for the elevator to be avaible:

[jovial rampart]

also let me press all the buttons at once right as i get off because its funny.

[steel cedar]

make it if a citizen is a diabetic they always use the elevator